Sometimes I worry about the British.
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Airminded is the research blog of Brett Holman, a PhD student in the School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia.
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Tuesday, 30 August 1938
30 August 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
There is some hopeful news today, resulting from the flurry of activity of yesterday. From The Times, p. 10:
It became known in London late last night that, as the result of Lord Runciman’s [...] -
Monday, 29 August 1938
29 August 2008 in 1930s, Periodicals, Pictures, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis, Quotes
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
The Sudeten crisis (or Czech crisis, or Czech-German crisis as it is called here) wasn’t front-page news in the Manchester Guardian on 29 August — it was on page 9. But that was [...]
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Acquisitions
29 August 2008 in Acquisitions, Books
S. P. MacKenzie. The Battle of Britain on Screen: ‘The Few’ in British Film and Television Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. A short but densely-packed book, a series of cases studies of key representations of the Battle: The Lion Has Wings, The First of the Few, Angels One Five, Reach for the Sky, Battle [...]
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Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis
28 August 2008 in 1930s, Blogging, Periodicals, Post-blogging the Sudeten crisis
This post is part of an experiment in post-blogging the Sudeten crisis of August-October 1938. See here for an introduction to the series.
Tomorrow I’m starting a bit of an experiment, an idea I had after doing a post on Human Smoke a few months back. We’re coming up on the 70th anniversary of the Sudeten [...] -
Screening the knock-out blow
26 August 2008 in 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, Film
Last year I gave a lecture where I said that Things to Come, the 1936 Alexander Korda production of H. G. Wells’ novel The Shape of Things to Come, was not a very popular film, that not many people would have seen it. I had to retract that, but I then said that
I stand [...]
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11 December 2007 at 11:28 pm
Jakob
Well, let’s be honest - did all those PAL whatsits stop General Jack Ripper? Poppycock! Just give our chaps an open cockpit to feel the wind in their hair, and they’ll sort Jerry out good and proper!
12 December 2007 at 2:41 am
Brett Holman
Well, maybe, but there’s a reason why SPECTRE keeps trying to nick your nukes! Put a bicycle lock on them, even, and they’ll go bother some other member of the nuclear club.
13 December 2007 at 8:24 pm
Cardinal Wolsey
Blimey. I think there may be some connection here between meccano nuke triggers and why the Nimrod is still flying so far past it’s sell-by date….